Michael McKean Explains Spinal Tap Songs

From The Onion's A.V. Club:

A few years ago, filmmaker Christopher Guest—the brains behind This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting For Guffman, and A Mighty Wind—was asked to speak at a retrospective on his films. So he phoned Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, costars of those films, and asked them to show up and play a few Spinal Tap songs—acoustic, and not in costume. The songs were well received, and now the threesome has launched a tour that continues the theme. “Unwigged & Unplugged” kicked off April 17 in Vancouver, and features low-key versions of Spinal Tap, Guffman, and Wind songs, sung by the comedic masterminds who originally penned them. The A.V. Club asked McKean, free from the faux-British accent, to share the stories behind the satirical ditties of Spinal Tap.

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As a bonus, here's Spinal Tap performing "Big Bottom" at Live Earth with 19 bass players! (Some of whom you might recognize ...)